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Character formula for Weil representations in terms of Frobenius traces

Number Theory 2026-01-13 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

It is known that the etale cohomology of a potentially good abelian variety over a local field K is determined by its Euler factors over the extensions of K. We extend this to all abelian varieties, show that it is enough to take extensions where A is semistable, and give a uniform version over p-adic fields where the extensions are the same for all abelian varieties of a given dimension. The results are explicit, and apply to a wide class of Weil-Deligne representations.

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@article{arxiv.2201.04094,
  title  = {Character formula for Weil representations in terms of Frobenius traces},
  author = {Tim Dokchitser and Vladimir Dokchitser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04094},
  year   = {2026}
}

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8 pages, final accepted version